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doubtful. kinda tight financially right now. Not really a GA guy anyways. Not sure if you're getting at stealing my collection, but if you do, it's straight to the Marketplace Probation with you.

sure. it's nice little collection. nothing earth shattering. Miller heavy.

Office closet.

unless you're a boardie who i have on ignore. you can still stay at my place, but I'm gonna act like you're not here.

$565.00 from jhutton2 12/16!!

thanks. i think it was around $550.00. Let me go check my boring 'ol PMs

what fun is that?

My house is open to all collectors. Stay for coffee or spend the week in the spare bedroom.

I usually keep pretty good records of what I spent on this or that comic so when I go to sell my collection I can see the massive amount of profits I'm making but this THE DTR #1 purchase must have slipped through the cracks. Can't find any notation in my state-of-the-art spiral notebook used for comic expenditures. I'd like to say the amount wasn't three-fiddy but hell, it might have been. Bought it about 2 years ago from a Boardie, I think. Anybody got any idea what I spent? Thanks.

Pasadena, California? Curious what shop so as to avoid.

In a way, it's like the reason the Rifleman comic with the wood is collectable.

i was never an expert in the comic crash of the 90s so I'm sure there lots I don't understand (so don't mind me, kids!) however when I see 15 variants of the same comic with a price tag of $14.99 each spread out at my LCS my brain, like, goes DANGER! DANGER! DANGER! DANGER! And now precious metals in comics? How about diamonds and jewels? But to answer the OP's question: No you're not the only one.

of course, that goes without saying: the most money will come from the clean, sharp well-placed sig. But I don't doubt that there will be a certain type of antithetical comic collector that leans to the curious/bizarre/stuff everyone else hates that will want the absolute worst SL sig in existence, of which our OP may possess and will pay a price for it, perhaps getting into bidding wars with the like minded. Much like some ghoulish collector paying a premium for SL's last sig ever.

Not joking here, I honestly believe this. I think in about 10 -15 years time (depending on when Lee makes his exit) there will become a market for the worst/craziest/blob-ish SL signature from those curio-minded collectors. Your book will be worth a fortune at that time. Hold on to it.

i never read a lot of Human Torch stories. When he was doused with water and put out, how long did it take for him to dry out and fire back up? This an honest question and not a silly one, like, how did Iceman walk without slipping. Thanks

so you mean you want one a nice condition not in the box?

i can barley read that story it's so heart breaking, especially if you've ever cared for a parent that's de-compensating right before your very eyes . Maybe Steve Ditko had it right. Don't talk to anyone, ever. There is simply no way to tell what is/has gone on. He said, she said, all with Lee's mental faculties, for the most part, having left him. What a sad ending.

I can say this to that: I bought a Time Traveler Micronaut in some kinda CGC-kinda company graded case still in the package. I cracked it out of it's grading company case and tore it out of the package and started to play with it. It immediately snapped at the hip. For a second a felt kinda stupid then just posted the packaging in my closet so I see it everyday and I love it.

I"m sorry, what does "I won't touch vintage Joes on the card" mean? Card is slang for packaging, right? I will say this: at conventions just looking at the loose toys in the big clear plastic box divided in little compartments for the loose toys IS IN NO WAY AS EXCITING as looking at the boxes. Which I guess is just a lesson in life itself.

i 'm not a toy guy however i find this thread fascinating. serious question: what's more important the box or the toy? Please don't say "both" so to insure that let me restate the question. You can have only one, which do you take: Mint condition G.I. Joe box or Mint condition G.I. Joe that came in box listed above?

My wife is a social worker. She deals with women forced from their homes for hellish reasons with nothing. One shoplifted food for one of her children. because they were literally starving to death. I just see Mr. A. throwing an all black playing card at this poor woman screaming "GUILTY" at her as he shoves her to her death off a high rise building. Let's leave it. It sounds as if you pick and choose what you like from Objectivism, not accepting things you disagree with. I would't think that would make you an Objectivist just a free thinking person who does indeed think for themselves just as I like things from the right but am not GOP and like things from the left and sure as mess aint a (the other party) I've demolished this thread enough. So if you would like to continue in PM that would be fine or you should have the last word here since I had the first words.

that certainly puts some context into things. thanks

makes sense. thanks.

fair enough. Why did Ayn except Social Security in her later years? Is that not a hand out? Aren't there members in american politics today that idolize Rand and her silly belief system who want to do away with SS because, (as they reason) it's a government hand out?? Steve's books should sell on their own merit enough for Snyder ( I really though he was a he, but if you say so) to not beg for money? Yes, it's begging. So obviously his books DON'T sell and he's not the creator he believes himself to be that can care for himself. What about the New York case worker that found him dead? So he had a case worker paid for by, yup, probably New York tax payers. Steve being cared for by others. I've met objectivists before. Never liked a one of em. Maybe you would be an exception. One was a grown adult man at the supermarket bagging groceries. He would never should the F up about objectivism so one day I told him "Shouldn't you be a Superman not a bag boy? He never spoke to me again. But if it works for you fine. And a friendly discussion is better. Watched your video. You're quoting Angelina Jolie? And that's a good thing? Do you know Angelina Jolie? I've worked 3 decades in Hollywood doing lighting for all manner of projects. I've worked with Jolie numerous times. From Herb Ritts photo shoots when she was no one (with her father, Jon Voit ,I beleive) to the megalomaniac she is today. But's that'a a good thing to be? Just taken' care of yourself! She really had to work hard to get where she is today! Nothing was given to her! It's just so laughable. Since I can't get political here, perhaps I can slip this by: People: If you're trying to get people behind your cause STOP quoting HOLLYWOOD CELEBRITIES. Ellen DeGeneres IS Donald Trump. They are the same! They're just selling you what you already want to buy. Like Objectivism. Or The right Or the Left. Sorry everyone. Mod delete if you feel the need.

I guess not the stealing component of your question I thought of, just knocking stuff about as only a gigantic home made Optimus Prime could. If cosplays never venture into the comic selling area, than yeah it's a moot.Thanks for your answer. But now I've got another thought, the bathroom floors must be flooded with pee-pee as I'm guessing proper urinating execution is difficult if you're all dressed up in Legos X-Wing fighter. Don't even want to think about going a big number 2.